Skip to content

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier have a global...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

No package listed— Suggest a package

Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier have a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 8e7c20a1 (20910-GITv2.9.10-103-g8e7c20a1).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 4, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.285%
(69th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-24977

GHSA ID

GHSA-w4m9-3rvp-7fhj

Source code

No known source code

Dependabot alerts are not supported on this advisory because it does not have a package from a supported ecosystem with an affected and fixed version.

Learn more about GitHub language support

Loading Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.